PIL.ImageFont 无法打开名称中有空格的字体

Question

sI am trying to use PIL.ImageFont.truetype to open a font This is for an OCR project

I have been unable to find a solution in Google or this site so far. The problem occurs when I try to open a font with spaces in the name. Any font name without a space works fine

from PIL import ImageFont

#This Works
ImageFont.truetype("C:\Windows\Fonts\Arial.ttf", 12)

#This does not
ImageFont.truetype("C:\Windows\Fonts\Times New Roman.ttf", 12)

Error is here:

File "B:\\Python\\lib\\site-packages\\PIL\\ImageFont.py", line 145, in init layout_engine=layout_engine)
OSError: cannot open resource

I've tried the following
1) renaming the file (not an elegant solution anyway)
2) moving the font to the same directory as the python script
3) adding / inside space (suggested)

I've also checked the error by trying multiple times with different font names and the same errors occur.

so far nothing works

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Ok,

I may have a solution. The hint came to me when I was typing in the font file name and a context menu appeared.

In the context menu was a list of fonts. All the font names were changed to a single name. For example "Time New Roman" was changed to "times"

I would be curious to know where this list exists. I tried to find it but came up empty.

Also, In addition I wanted to work with a custom font that wasn't listed. After downloading the font, I renamed it to a single word font. Then I placed the font in the same directory as my python script. This worked OK.

I thought I would post this in case anyone else had the same issue

Answer 2

This is not the string you think it is:

"C:\Windows\Fonts\Times New Roman.ttf"

Backslash is an escape character. You need to escape the backslash to have a real backslash, like this:

"C:\\Windows\\Fonts\\Times New Roman.ttf"

You may also do this, if you prefer:

os.path.join('C:\\', 'Windows', 'Fonts', 'Times New Roman.ttf')

Answer 3

I found a list online with Font Names mapping to File Name. You can use the file name for the corresponding Font Name.

For Example: for "Times New Roman" we can use "Times.ttf"

Please find the complete list in the below link

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/windows_10_font_list